Freedom of speech

 

                                  Two seven-day long debate on most topical issues

 

                                           (Ist cycle: 14th – 20th November 2010

 

                                           IInd cycle: 21st – 27th November 2010)

 

 

The UOGCC Bishops’ Synod, which represents traditional moral and spiritual values, calls for a public debate.

 

In recent days the mass media have been carrying out a one-sided promotion of amorality (homosexuality, transexuality – TV channel UT-1 on 11th October 2010). This promotion is escalating. The other party has been given no space. Within the freedom of speech we therefore suggest the following fair solution: first cycle of seven-day long public debate from Sunday 14th November 2010 until Saturday 20th November 2010 in one of the leading TV channels. Let there be allotted the optimum time of two hours of live broadcast; one hour to the representatives of the UOGCC Bishops’ Synod and one hour to the opposition. This time will be divided into 5 or 10-minute segments. We propose that the debate is moderated by the representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.

 

Topics of the debate with the representatives of the UOGCC Bishops’ Synod:

 

1st day – 14th November: The issue of gender policy

Opposition: representatives from the Ministries for Family, Education and Justice.

 

2nd day – 15th November: Juvenile justice, i.e. deprivation of parental rights and removal of children from their parents

Opposition: representatives from the Ministries for Family, Education and Justice.

 

3rd day – 16th November: The Lisbon Treaty and ideology of the EU

Opposition: EU representatives in Ukraine or their supporters. We invite PACE rapporteur Ms Wohlwend to come and monitor observance of the freedom of speech during the debate.

 

4th day – 17th November: Freemasons in the world and in Ukraine

Opposition: representatives of Masonic lodges and Masonic orders in Ukraine.

 

5th day – 18th November: Discrimination of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek Catholic Church

Opposition: authors of discrimination – apostatic hierarchy of the UGCC headed by ex-Card. Husar and the State Committee of Ukraine on Matters of Nationalities and Religions.

 

6th day – 19th November: Crisis in the western Catholic Church and its influence on Ukraine

Opposition: representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lvov (UCU), representatives of the Nunciature.

 

7th day – 20th November: The prospect of moral, spiritual and economic revival in Ukraine

Opposition: representatives of the main political parties.

 

Rules of the debate:

-       the maximum number of opponents: 10

-       strict adherence to time limits in the ratio 50% : 50%.

 

Owing to extreme pressures urging Ukraine to change its laws and Constitution we propose that the debate be started before the scheduled summit in Brussels on 22 November 2010, i.e. from Sunday 14th November 2010 to Saturday 20th November 2010.

 

We propose that in the next week (21st – 27th November 2010) the second cycle of debates should be carried out on the same themes and in the same order with the difference that audience can take part in this debate. Within a specified time limit each question is responded by a representative of the Bishops’ Synod and by a representative of the opposition.

 

If this public debate is not allowed and if there is assigned not even one television channel which would objectively broadcast it live, it is the strongest evidence that the monopoly over mass media in Ukraine is in the hands of the Western ideologists and their centres.

 

We appeal to the EU to introduce a similar model of debate, which excludes the monopoly on information, in every country in Europe. If the EU finds no opposition party for the debate, we are willing to hold the discussion through television space bridge.

 

Motto: Restoration of true democracy and freedom of speech in Ukraine but especially in the EU!

  

We hereby turn to the Party of Regions with a request that it charges one of the television channels with the task of ensuring the public debate from 14th to 27th November 2010 in prime time.

 

UOGCC Bishops’ Synod

 

                                  + Markian OSBMr

                                  + Metod?j OSBMr

                                  + Eliáš OSBMr

                                  + Samuel OSBMr

 

                                                                                                                                        Lvov, 28th October 2010

 

A copy of this appeal is forwarded to:

-     President of Ukraine V. Yanukovych

-     Prime Minister of Ukraine M. Azarov

-     MPs and Ministers of Ukraine

-     Managers of TV channels in Ukraine

-     Mass media in Europe

-     Members of the European Parliament

 

 

Address: Synod of the UOGCC, 3 Sosnova St., Lvov - Bryukhovychi, 79491, Ukraine

www.uogcc.org.ua, www.community.org.ua; pidhirci.community@gmail.com